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		voxic11 on Sept 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cosmos Browser – Connect to the Internet via SMS, ... Well luckily most people don't have to pay for receiving sms messages.

brg1007 on Sept 11, 2014 [–]

I know that in the past in US and Canada carriers billed incoming SMS, but I thought that alongside with the new age of messaging apps like WhatsApp and iMessage they dropped this nonsense. In Europe even when in Roaming there is no cost for incoming SMS.

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